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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1950
Page
20
City workers discuss a five day work week sparked by a new off hours collections depository. Despite talks, no official decision has been made. Currently most employees work five and a half days weekly with police and fire on separate schedules. Nearby counties and towns already use five day weeks.
Six High Point students Rebecca A. Johnson Suzanne Slate Albert F Bragg Frederick C Farmer John W McGuinn Jr and Jerry D Paschal have completed orientation and joined Duke University freshmen. The class includes 304 women and 614 men from 34 states eight countries, with Duke enrolling over 5,000 students overall.
Partly cloudy skies and warm temperatures are expected tonight and tomorrow according to the Friendship weatherman. He noted a chance of scattered showers in the project, with today's high near 85 and a tonight low around 65, about three degrees above last night's low.
Thomasville September 21 Paul Keyes Mills Home farm manager says western livestock may move south as climate soil and longer growing seasons favor livestock. Dairying and beef cattle rising in Davidson County with Grade A dairies and beef breeders increasing from 8 in 1947 to 56 in 1950. Tobacco remains leading money crop but dairying swine and sheep grow as cotton area shrinks. Mention of Mills Home operations Holston milking herd praise Poland China swine prizes. Rotarians from High Point Brant Snavely William Hazelwood guests. Tex Slader Junior Rotarian for September.
THOMASVILLE Sept. 21 Sale of what is regarded as the oldest retail business here Thomasville Drug company on Salem street was disclosed yesterday. It was sold Monday by E. L. Webb to P. L. Trotter of Winston-Salem and Chapel Hill and Henry E. Smith of Winston-Salem. The purchase price was not revealed. Trotter said the drug business will be operated under its present name and that no immediate changes in policy or physical set up are contemplated. Webb has agreed to operate the store until October 15, when Trotter and Smith will take over on a full time basis. Trotter said he and Smith expect to move to Thomasville right away with their families. The Smiths have no children. The new owners at present are associated with the Bobbitt drug stores of Winston-Salem. Webb, for six years a city councilman, part of which time he was mayor pro-tem, and a charter member of the Rotary club, said he will retire after October 15. He will spend the winter with his family in Dundin, Florida. He will maintain his residence here, at least temporarily, as well as the one he has in Dundin. He came here 37 years ago and bought the Thomasville Drug from a corporation. A drug company had been operated in the location 13 years prior to that.
Parks Director Carl Plate will lead a panel at the 32nd National Recreation Congress in Cleveland Ohio early next month. He will be joined by Foster Blaisdell of Charlotte Lloyd Hathaway of Winston-Salem and Bob Hartley of Lumberton recreation directors. The group will also attend a meeting of the American Recreation Society before the congress. Plate will speak on standards for athletic programs in community recreation programs.
High Point manufacturing plants rose to 295 this year per a chamber of commerce survey led by secretary Frank Sizemore. The 1950 Manufacturing Directory will print by October 1, with a deadline for additions of October 1. Top sectors include furniture with 85 firms, supplies for manufacturers 38, hosiery 31, and machinery 29, followed by others across 295 total.
Thomasville high school Parent-Teachers association will sponsor the season's first jamboree and fiddlers convention Saturday at 3 p.m. in the high school auditorium. Proceeds will fund school betterment activities. Noted string band musicians will perform and cash prizes await the top performers as judged. Hal Harrison and Joe Long will be masters of ceremony.
Coroner Jack Horner ruled a murder by own action in the deaths of Eugene Craddock, 33, and his wife Police Sayer Craddock, 34, at ROPER September 21. Craddock allegedly fired a shotgun into his wife’s chest and then killed himself, dying beside her.
A Fairview street case bound two men over to Superior Court after a preliminary hearing. Woodrow Ingram, 613 Fairview, charged with assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill two men, McCoy and Lassiter, while those two faced similar charges and were dismissed. Griffin Welch, Route 1, accused of breaking into four local school buildings in fall 1946 and stealing typewriters. Additional sentences given for drunkenness and other offenses.
City council committee rejected bids for radio equipment due to specs favoring a single type. Several members doubt if approval occurred. City Manager says it was approved by finance committee, but chairman recalls no meeting. New bids will be opened in weeks. council may recheck budget approvals. Fire Chief sought dispatching radios for division vehicles. a similar request was turned down last year.
Plans for a local honor roll board to honor High Point service members were announced by Commander A C Schultz of VFW Post No 619. Residents with sons or daughters in the service were urged to return coupons printed on the page so names could be accurately inscribed on individual name plates.
The message requests printing and sending information to A. C. Schultz Commander P.O. Box 667 High Point. It asks for Name Address Name of nearest Relative Serial No Relationship Remarks and Tel No. The fragmentary form shows absent details and unclear data in the placeholders.
A memorial board is planned beside the local V F W home near the bus station. The board will be 16 feet high and 24 feet in front, with a formal dedication to be held after erection. It is expected to list 4,000 to 5,000 names. Contributions are welcomed and should be sent to A. C. Schultz, Commander, P O Box 667, High Point.
Construction will begin on two large school projects in High Point with a total near 739,000 dollars. R. K. Stewart and Son Contractors secured permits for a William Penn high school addition and an elementary school, both to be fireproof and ready by the 1951 52 opening. Permits to the High Point Board of School Commissioners cite costs 352,730 and 386,117 respectively, marking the month and year’s largest projects. Residential permits were awarded to E. E. Setzer for two frame Gordon street units costing 36,000 each.
John Paul Lucas Jr of Charlotte and Duke Power public relations director will address the First Presbyterian church Men’s club at its first fall gathering. Lucas, a known Methodist layman and North Carolina after dinner speaker, was announced by club president C S McGahey.
The High Point Junior Chamber of Commerce committee on fire prevention urges year-round effort to reduce fires caused by heating equipment and neglected wiring. It urges property owners to have heating systems, flues, and electrical setups checked by professionals and stresses cooperation with the city fire department to make High Point safer and reduce losses.
High Point Elks lodge 1155 will hold its regular meeting tomorrow night at 7 in the lodge room on English Street. Casper Z. Warner, son of Mr and Mrs C A Warner of 1411 English Street High Point, serves aboard the flagship of Capt B L Austin USN in the Far East as damage controlman third class.
Mrs Anna Johnson receives a building permit for repairs and an addition to her house at 512 Cross Street. The project budget is listed as 2500 dollars. The permit documents authorize exterior work and structural improvements to expand living space.
Charles G. Farmer aviation chief machinist's mate USN son of Mr and Mrs HE F Farmer of 403 Phillips street High Point has reported for duty at the U S Naval Air Test Center Patuxent River Md
The local draft board office will close all day Monday so clerks can attend a Greensboro boards meeting. Chief clerk Lillian Hedrick announced. Mrs. Roger Morris serves as parks and juvenile secretary at city hall this week replacing Virginia Robbins, who had held the post temporarily but moved out of the city. Parks Director Carl Plate said a permanent replacement had not yet been appointed.
Donald Ray Hicks of 915 Ashebor street and Alexander Poe of 1201 Olga street were bound over to Superior Court by Judge D C MacRae after probable cause found on charges of larceny and receiving. Hicks, a former Sears Roebuck employee, admitted taking merchandise from the store warehouse. about 2801 dollars worth were taken over several months. No charges were filed against receivers. Poe allegedly took money from Hicks for disposal of the goods, with receivers claiming they paid low prices due to Hicks’s store access.
Richard D. Meisky is selected by Mayor W F Bailey to coordinate civilian defense in High Point. A Lancaster native raised here since age two, Meisky is a former Presbyterian College football captain and current YMCA physical education director. He served in World War II earning the Silver Star and later taught officer training at Ft Leavenworth. He and his wife live at 2405 Dallas Street. He says public support will be hard as plans are studied with National Security Resources Board material before finalizing actions.
Library trustees met at the North Main Street facility to discuss increased operations. Brant Snavely, chairman, presided as circulation rose notably at the Washington street Negro branch and the Highland branch. August saw more book additions than the prior year, and memorial contributions were urged to boost library gifts.
Thomasville September 21 Denominational leaders dot the program for the Liberty Baptist association annual session to meet at Stoners Grove and Holloways churches. Dr M A Huggins and Dr L B Reavis headline addresses with ministers and editors presenting lectures on Christian literature and missions. Rev J O Walton of Mills Home will serve as moderator at all sessions.
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